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MIP should be Wesley Matthews.
I'd go with Pop for COY, but don't discount Thibodeau as a legitimate COY candidate. It's not just that the Bulls look much better than last year. But they've done so with Boozer and Noah missing huge amounts of games this season. Boozer has missed 18 games and counting and the Bulls are 11-7 without him. Noah has missed 19 games and counting and the Bulls are 13-6 without him. Plus, they've beaten Dallas, Boston, and Miami with at least one of those guys out. Thibodeau is very much a COY candidate. One thing Pop has really enjoyed this season is the health of his best players. Doesn't mean he doesn't deserve COY, but you take something like that into consideration.
MIP should be Wesley Matthews.
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I think Pop is a safe pick. The Spurs will not lose no more than 17 games and that should safely put them with the best record in the West. But my pick has to do with the the fact the Spurs appears to be flying under the radar despite having the best record in the league. All eyes are on the Lakers, Heat & the resurgence of Chicago. You have to realize that the Bulls hasn't had a 50+ winning season for a decade, so this is truly a big deal for its franchise.
Voters are always looking for a great story, lately they always want to vote for a young team on the rise. If you look at the past 7 winners (Mike Brown, Scott Brooks, Sam Mitc , Mike D'Antoni, Hubie Brown) their teams all had the same ingredients. They all coached a team who were struggling for many years but were able to magically turn their season around in those years the won a COY.
Popovich and the Spurs are world class, but people have to remember that they've been on top for so long now that winning another 60+ wins doesn't put as much excitement as the Bulls winning 50+. Its not fair but the voting system is ed eversince.
For example, this present day coach who has 11 rings along with many impressive regular season records only has 1 COY award.
I like Rose too, but my argument why he won't win it is because, A. He's too young, B.The amount of older players whose been great for a longer period of time may steal votes from him (Lebron, Wade, Dwight & even Kobe & Duncan will surely get some 1st place votes)
I will use the same reasoning why Chris Paul didn't win it in 2008. Paul led his team to a 56 win season and had one of the greatest statistical season ever by a PG at that time and the voters gave it to Kobe as sorta "Lifetime achievement award". I feel the voters may use the same formula here and give Wade this award.
Wade is neither better nor more valuable than LeBron. That much has been pretty clear. If he's not the most valuable player on his own team, he can't be the most valuable player in the league.
I can't see Wade winning MVP.
Felton should probably be in the conversation for MIP as well. His stats are vastly improved with not a huge jump in minutes played.
don't see no chance TC getting the DPOY award tbh. although trigga has been undeniably a pivot for mavs this season, playing superb D which has been the key for mavs success this season, the award will still go to the same old triggas with bigger reputations like KG, D-Howard etc...
TC wasn't even included in the All-star vote despite that other western centers mostly suck asses.
MVP: Derrick Rose..top 3 team in the East right now, despite 2 of the 3 best players on the team(their 2 best rebounders, best defender on the team, best p&r player, main low post scorer) missing significant time..
#2: Dwight Howard..
#3: Amare Stoudemire..
COTY: Pop..should be a no-brainer right now..Spurs are on a historic pace, nobody expected it(unless you're a huge homer)..
#2: Tom Thibodeau..
#3: Mike D'Antoni??..
DPOY: Kevin Garnett..I'm not 100% on this one, because he has played 8 less games than Howard, but he has had the most significant impact on his team's D than anybody in the NBA this season..
#2: Dwight Howard..
#3: Andrew Bogut..
MIP: Kevin Love..he was pretty good last year, but not a standout..his team had him on the trading block..this season, he leads the NBA and rebounding + his amazing double-double streak + adding 3-point range and an expanded offensive repertoire..
#2: Russell Westbrook..
#3: Eric Gordon..
"and cry me a river, that leads to your ocean...." -Bee Gees
MVP: Amar'e Stoudemire
MIP: Kevin Love
6MOY: Jason Terry
DPOY: Dwight Howard
COY: Gregg Popovich
Comeback POY: Elton Brand
Father time Award: Grant Hill
All-NBA:
Derrick Rose / Russell Westbrook / Rajon Rondo
Kobe Bryant / Manu Ginobili / Jason Richardson
Lebron James / Paul Pierce / Lamar Odom
Amar'e Stoudemire / Dirk Nowitzki / Pau Gasol
Dwight Howard / Al Horford / Tyson Chandler
Most Suprising Team: New York Knicks / San Antonio Spurs
Most Disappointing Team: Miami Heat / Oklahoma City Thunder
Biggest Story of the Season: All the winning streaks of 10 or more.
Best Team: Boston Celtics / San Antonio Spurs
Worst Team: Cleveland Cavaliers / Golden State Warriors
Year of the big man.
MVP of 2010-2011 season must have anal sex with this man:
I know the MVP won't be a Spur. Have fun
What's the logic behind Jason Richardson making an All-NBA team, and Golden State being the worst team in the West?..
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The Warriors play no defense and it's difficult to find a shooting guard after Manu. He's helping Orlando win the way Manu has helped the Spurs before this season. Just a jack of all trades.
this. bogut is a beast under the rim.
mvp - rose
mip - gordon, love (gotta consider hibbert too imo)
dpoy - bogut
coy - thibedau or however the you spell it
6th man
odum
1st team
dwight
bron
amare
rondo
rose
2nd team
bogut
dirk
durant
wade
westbrook
honorable mentions
pierce
griffin
odum
nene
williams
parker
kobe
rayjayjohnson's award for flying under the radar
boozer
rayjayjohnson's award for needing to retire
duncan
in'n'out burgers' award for most valuable customer
bynum.
gilbert arenas award for most useless contract
joe johnson
washington redskins award for overhyped team
new york knicks
justin beiber award for biggest got
gasol, kg
lol at all the Amare for MVP votes
LeBron's still the best player in the game, but no way the media gives him a third in a row when his ppg have dropped from 30 to 26. Look how sick they got of giving it to Jordan, and Jordan never pissed them off as much as James has this year. This is Dwight Howard's MVP to lose, with maybe Rose and Nowitzki having a chance to snatch it with a strong second half.
Why people are still picking or considering Amar'e as a Top 3 MVP candidate is beyond me. Are you guys aware the Knicks are on a 5 game slide with chances of the Knicks winning 50 is getting slimmer?
While I agree with ChrisRichards and Baselinebum using their reasoning, I still think Lebron can convince voters if the Heat continues to win at their current pace while putting up great numbers across the boards, this of course follows the previous unwritten rule (Best Player on the Best Team with Great Stats).
Lebron winning it for the third time is unlikely but in all honesty, no other player really jumps out of the pack. Maybe Dwight because of his outstanding rebounding numbers, but the Magic aren't exactly doing well lately (3-3, last 6) and Dwight's offensive numbers look anemic in comparison to other candidates. Also, I dont know how he'll get a large number of votes considering he's the run away DPOY of the year. Hard to give both DPOY and MVP to Dwight considering he's not really dominating on both ends of the floor. Last player that won both in the same season was Olajuwon IIRC and he absolutely destroyed the league.
MVP-Bron
DPOY-Dwight
ROY-Griffin
COY-Pop
MIP-Love
Describing Dwight's offensiev numbers as "anemic" is a bit much. He's not the potent scorer guys like LeBron and Durant are. But 22 PPG on 56.9% shooting doesn't strike me as "anemic." Remember, Duncan won an MVP posting 23 PPG on 51.3% FG and KG won an MVP averaging 24 PPG on 49.9% FG shooting.
Dwight's offense, if anything, looks much improved.
Amare has definitely dropped out of the conversation now that the Knicks have started to slide lately. But it was a nice story for a little while. And Amare has still been huge for the Knicks considering they only won 29 games last year. But I agree his MVP candidacy is very much linked to how well the Knicks do. Right now, they are looking more like a 45 win team than a 50 win team. And for a legitimate chance at the MVP, that's a big difference. I wouldn't completely rule him out though because the Knicks have 31 of their last 40 games against Eastern Conference teams and only 10 of the last 40 games against elite teams (Miami, Orlando, Boston, Dallas, Lakers). The Knicks can still make a push because they'll be playing a lot of average and below average teams the rest of the way. But they'll have to win virtually all of those "winnable" games and steal a couple from the good teams.
Yes, anemic is the wrong choice of word. I would simply put it this way, among the Top 7 players in my list (Lebron, Wade, Kobe, Dirk, Durant & Rose) Dwight has the least impressive scoring average.
While PPG is not a true indication of a players offensive production and obviously is not the only factor (Nash, for example) I think its necessary for a serious candidate to be a force to be reckon with offensively. Dwight's 22 PPG is quite good but in comparison to the last 20 winners, he falls a bit short. Nash was not a scorer, but he was quite easily the best offensive maker in both years he won the MVP. Just to show how much value voters put in offense, majority of its winners in the last 20 years are big time scorers (Jordan, Malone, Shaq, Robinson, Barkley, Iverson, Kobe, Lebron, Dirk, Olajuwon) and while Duncan and Garnett don't fit in the same group above, both happened to have career scoring averages the year they both won their MVP's ( 2001, 2002 Duncan, 2004 KG). I guess I won't be surprised though if he wins it, afterall the media can always flip the script to their liking and Dwight indeed increased his PPG. But I'm going to be firm here and say the MVP this year will need at least 24 PPG, not the most scientific claim of course but there's something about big time scorers on a great team that puts them on top when it comes to garnering MVP votes.
And I don't trust the Knicks winning a great size of their remaining games. The team is suffering of fatigue because of huge minutes played by starters according to some Knicks fan and that's why they have been flat for the past 2 weeks. What made D'Antoni's Phoenix teams successful in the past was because they have great depth and a consistent floor general, both the Knicks don't have at the moment.
LEBRON winning a mvp again this season is lame
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